Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-28
State News.
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Hon. E. B. Washburn has placed beauti
full memorial window in memory of his wifi,
in the church at the Norlands in Livermore
Appropriate memorial services will be helt
next Sunday morning in the church at TO- 80
conducted by Rev. w. A. Pratt.
] bn Plunket,, of Mechanic Falls, cut hi
foot while splitting wood. Monday. The
wound was severe one and necessitated it.
being sewn up.-A crew Of men started or
Conant's drive of logs Monday morning, tax
ing advantage of the rise of the river to ge
them over the dams.-The knights of Py
thiss are arranging for an excursion to Port
land and the islands some time next month
They are also forming brass band, com
posed entirely of members, for the occasion
The Advent people are pitching a nam
moth tent in Perryville. Auburn, on the line
of the horse railroad that will seat 500 people
They propose to hold meetings afternoon an6
evening, until August 18Th, beginning this
week. The tent at the close of their conven.
ton will be pitched at Lake Grove, where i:
to be held the Second Advent camp-meetins
and psalm servise from August 18th to Au
gust 22d.
CUMBERLAND.
Particulars of terrible blunder made il
the compounding of medicines is just report
ed from Brunswick. Mrs. Brewster, wife OF
Col. Brewster, has been sick for some time
She had just returned home from Newport
and not feeling as well as usual sent for the
family physician, who ordered some simple
remedy, and the same was obtained at drus
store. Soon after taking the first dose Mrs
Brewster became very sick, and in few
moments was in terrible agony. The physi
clan was sent for again, and at once said thai
she had been poisoned. 1t was some hours
before she was pronounced out of danger anG
it will be long time before she will fully
recover. The physicians say that she took
an overdose of very powerful poison, ant
that fact coupled with the fact that she was
too sick to retain the poison but a few mo-
ments saved her life. She took poison
enough to have killed % men had it beer
administered in small doses. No explanation
of how the mistake was made is given.
FRANKLIN.
The young and popular Maine singer Nine
Ntrdca, who is a native of Pennington, Me.
is about returning TO this country. She mar
ried Mr.. Cover, the joint inventor of thu
Cover Bell telephone, who lett an enormou.
fortune, partly in France and partly in Amer
lea. The British Government paid him auC
his partner $3.50, 900 for the patent OF the
telephone. few years ago Mr.. Cover was
experimenting with some balloon engineers
when the balloon sailed away and has not
since been heard of. A full account of Mr..
Covers trip across the English chanhel apG
probable loss was published in the papers
at the time. There is not the smallest
doubt that Mr.. Cover was killed, but, in
accordance with the French law, unless the
body be discovered, the widow can neither
assume her pecuniary fortune nor marry
again until cerisin number of years have
expired The legal period is now at an end
and Nine. Nordica, now in London, will star
for the United States, directly after the close
of the Drury Lane season, to administer her
husbands property.
HANCOCK.
The Bar Harbor manager of the Maine
Central railroad has had many improvement.
made at the wharf for the comfort and con
venience of passengers landing there. one o
which is a rope to divide off the carriage anG
buckboard drivers from the emerging travel
ers. The hotel runners are now also com
PEELED to keep within the drawn rope, which
averts great nuisance.
The Green Mountain Railway is reported
to be doing an unusually good business thu
far this season. About everybody at Ba
Harbor goes up the mountain and the barge
are filled at each trip with laughing, chatter
! ing young people, and even the grav-heade,
| and specialized veterans who have ''done" tn,
| Alps and Rockies, and scaled the heights O
the Sierras. enjoy the trip.
KENNEBEc
| The experimenting school committee o
Waterville, have elected W. c. Crawford
- pol rs III ~ 81
Plaisted, assistant in the High school il
place of Miss True, who has resigned, ant
Florence DrummoEd and Miss Lizzie Hodg
SAGADAHoC
An investigation as to the working of tn
Bath fire department began at City Hall
Monday afternoon, brought about by the las
| fire. Mayor Wakefield stands by the depart
ment. Ii is alleged that the department ha
been cut down and crippled so, that is in
sufficient and that the reason that the fir
spread so at the last fire may be laid to poo
| fire dedartment The city government claim
that the New England Shipbuiling Co., dit
not have proper fire appliances. rail
road to which superintendent Charles A
Coombs late Of the X. of L., was called a
superintendent, has been sold, and under tn
new management Mr.. Coombs will not re
tain his present position, but he has been as
| sured Of as good a position.-Mr Jones
mate of the steamer Wiwurna, who met wi i'll
such painful accident, was reported wors,
Monday.-It is said that one result of thu
recent fire at the yard of the New Englant
| Ship Building Co., will be to reduce TIL
number of stockholders, as some of them i
is thought will drop out rather than meet tn,
assessment which the IRE necessitated Tu!
| Plymouth of Portland towing the schooner
Fred A Smell to McCarthy's cove, came int
the Keanebec Monday afternoon. Tn,
captain said the smoke was SO thick he coul(
| see the vessel behind him.
SOMERSET.
CANAAN Our correspondent writes Jul,
&c: OTIS Maxwell Of North Canaan, youn,
man 10 years CT age, son of t. L. Maxwell
went in swimming at Crommett's bridge
young man by the name Of Worthing, boil
being accustomed TO Swimming; the recen
rains had raised the stream, they got into
deep place and were drawn under by stron,
under current. Worthing gained the shore
but young Maxwell. not so expert at swim
ming, was drowned His untimeiy death is
s, d N jsfortune to his father who Is a hard
W Xxi ig farmer. and their son was his mair
dependence and hope.-The long continued
rain storm is doing great damage to the
large amount Of hay cut. some laying in thu
swath but most of itin heaps.-The Children't
Band of Hope, about 40 in Bumber, with